UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra presents a new concert series Great Voices dedicated to stellar vocalists! The premiere in October 2020 brings the Israeli jazz singer and composer Efrat Alony to perform in Finland for the very first time. For special program “New Jewish Folk Songs” Efrat Alony has chosen her favorite Israeli standards composed between the 1920s up to contemporary Israeli music, to be masterfully arranged and reshaped by UMO Helsinki’s chief conductor and artistic director, American-Austrian Ed Partyka.
The arrangements for the concerts are exceptional: tickets are sold for only 200 people, and the audience is seated in the Savoy’s auditorium for 750 people with fair safety intervals. There are only single, double and quartet ticket packages on sale, which can be purchased only at Lippu.fi online store. The seats are positioned so that the audience does not come into close contact with each other or the performers. Duration about 75 minutes, no intermission. Audience safety at concerts >>...
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UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra presents a new concert series Great Voices dedicated to stellar vocalists! The premiere in October 2020 brings the Israeli jazz singer and composer Efrat Alony to perform in Finland for the very first time. For special program “New Jewish Folk Songs” Efrat Alony has chosen her favorite Israeli standards composed between the 1920s up to contemporary Israeli music, to be masterfully arranged and reshaped by UMO Helsinki’s chief conductor and artistic director, American-Austrian Ed Partyka.
The arrangements for the concerts are exceptional: tickets are sold for only 200 people, and the audience is seated in the Savoy’s auditorium for 750 people with fair safety intervals. There are only single, double and quartet ticket packages on sale, which can be purchased only at Lippu.fi online store. The seats are positioned so that the audience does not come into close contact with each other or the performers. Duration about 75 minutes, no intermission. Audience safety at concerts >>
Alony, who now lives in Berlin, has fascinated the European press for many years. She has been crowned “one of the most important voices in the German jazz scene”. Her music has been called “popular art songs, highly expressive”, others speak of “pop songs that mysteriously come out of jazz” or “a chamber-jazz parallel world”. Trying to put Alony’s music in a box is a task destined to fail. Every musical compartment would simply be too small. Her ability to compose and sing in between the musical genres – both in Hebrew and English – in her exceptional unique style is what makes her stand out and shine.
Partyka’s orchestral finesse and the wide ranged temperament of the songs presented provide the perfect canvas for Alony’s strong, soulful and deep voice, with its marvelous shape-shifting abilities, to slip in and out of different characters and emotions.
”The style isn’t quite jazz but something new and cutting edge, sort of an atonal folk-electronica mash. While I confess you may need to recalibrate your sensibility a bit to fully appreciate what Alony is doing, the journey is well worth it. If you appreciate avant-garde music, her sound grows on you fast.” Jazzwax.com, Marc Meyers
“She is a musician of a unique refinement. She loves the melting of sound-elements rooted in jazz, rock and electronic music, and using her poetic lyrics and her warm dark alto voice she turns it into a very individual and personal statement.” Bavarian Radio
”I’m not sure that there is a category for what Alony does. I’m not sure that there should be. Call it music.”Artsjournal, Doug Ramsey
”The style isn’t quite jazz but something new and cutting edge, sort of an atonal folk-electronica mash. While I confess you may need to recalibrate your sensibility a bit to fully appreciate what Alony is doing, the journey is well worth it. If you appreciate avant-garde music, her sound grows on you fast.” Jazzwax.com, Marc Meyers
Tickets 28 € from Lippu.fi
UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra aloittaa Great Voices -konserttisarjan, jonka kuratoi ja johtaa orkesterin pääkapellimestari ja taiteellinen johtaja Ed Partyka. Konserttisarjassa tuodaan UMO Helsingin solisteiksi nimekkäitä ja nousevia laulusolisteja eri puolilta maailmaa. Sarjan aloitus on siirtynyt keväältä syyskaudelle 2020 ja se käynnistyy Great Voices Premiere -konsertilla Savoy-teatterissa lauantaina 24. lokakuuta israelilaisen jazzlaulaja-säveltäjä Efrat Alonyn kanssa. Konsertissa kuullaan juutalaista kansanmusiikkia teemalla New Jewish Folk Songs.
Liput Lippu.fi 28 €
Turvavälikonsertti! Savoy-teatterin konsertin järjestelyt ovat poikkeukselliset: lippuja myydään vain 200 hengelle, ja yleisö sijoitetaan istumaan 750-paikkaiseen katsomoon reiluin turvavälein. Myynnissä on yhden, kahden ja neljän hengen paikkalippupaketteja, jotka ostetaan ainoastaan verkkokaupasta. Myyntiin tulevat paikat on sijoitettu siten, että yleisö ei joudu lähikontaktiin toistensa tai esiintyjien kanssa. Ennakkojärjestelyillä ja tehostetuilla hygieniaratkaisuilla pyritään takaamaan kaikille osallistujille mahdollisimman turvallinen konserttitapahtuma. Lähikontaktien minimoimiseksi naulakkopalveluja ei poikkeuksellisesti ole tarjolla, vaan yleisö vie takit mukanaan saliin. Siivousta on tehostettu, ja yleisölle on tarjolla käsidesiä. Paikoille ohjaaminen tapahtuu turvavälit huomioiden. Pysy kotona, mikäli sinulla on flunssan oireita tai olet koronaviruksen altistusketjussa. Lipuilla on tällöin palautusoikeus. Konsertin kesto on n. 75 minuuttia, eikä siinä ole väliaikaa. Ohjeet turvalliseen konserttivierailuun >>
Efrat Alony (s. 1975) on valinnut Suomen ensivierailuaan varten omat suosikkinsa israelilaisista standardeista 1920-luvulta aina tähän päivään. Efrat Alony on upea tulkitsija, jonka poikkeuksellisen sielukas ääni kertoo tarinoita ilmeikkäästi ja täysin omalla tyylillään. Hän laulaa pääosin hepreaksi, mutta mukana on myös muutama englanninkielinen kappale. Alonyn musiikkia on mahdotonta kuvailla yhdellä sanalla tai sulloa yhteen kategoriaan. Hänen tapansa säveltää, laulaa ja liikkua musiikillisten tyylilajien välillä erottaa naisen muista. Nykyään Berliinissä vaikuttava Alony on tehnyt uransa varrella yhteistyötä monien big bandien, kuten frankfurtilaisen hr-Bigbandin, amsterdamilaisen Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouwn ja Zurich Jazz Orchestran kanssa. Hän on tehnyt jo pitkään yhteistyötä myös Ed Partykan kanssa, joka nytkin sovittaa ja orkestroi ohjelmiston, tuoden tyylikkäästi esille sekä musiikin että big bandinsa finessit ja vaihtelevan temperamentin. www.alony.de
“She is a musician of a unique refinement. She loves the melting of sound-elements rooted in jazz, rock and electronic music, and using her poetic lyrics and her warm dark alto voice she turns it into a very individual and personal statement.” Bavarian Radio
”I’m not sure that there is a category for what Alony does. I’m not sure that there should be. Call it music.”Artsjournal, Doug Ramsey
”The style isn’t quite jazz but something new and cutting edge, sort of an atonal folk-electronica mash. While I confess you may need to recalibrate your sensibility a bit to fully appreciate what Alony is doing, the journey is well worth it. If you appreciate avant-garde music, her sound grows on you fast.” Jazzwax.com, Marc Meyers
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